The Central Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), DSP George Appiah Sekyie, has warned those who abuse women, especially those with disabilities, that they would be prosecuted when reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt's push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year; meanwhile, Clinton addressed head-on the fear that the hardliners will crimp women's rights.
Kenyan parliamentarians have been meeting in Nairobi since Monday to discuss how they can best support the improvement of women’s and children’s health.
Ghanaian women have been advised to come together as one voice to promote issues concerning their rights to better their lot.
The presentation of the 2012 National Budget was characterised by a lot of hype and expectation among the media, the business community, civil society and the rest of society.
Women’s groups such as Women in Black have long led the way in challenging the mindsets and structures of patriarchal power and militarism, but men must recognise that they have the primary responsibility to make the changes, says Rebecca Johnson.
This year, for the first time, the World Bank dedicated its 2012 annual flagship World Development Report to women as indispensable players in the global economy and launched a media campaign to "think equal".
The State Council on Tuesday adjourned till Dec. 27 a case against the military institution to end the practice of virginity tests.
While female voters are turning out in huge numbers for the elections, some feminists are boycotting them. Women have been turning out in force in the early days of Egypt's parliamentary elections this week, some queuing for as long as seven or eight hours to cast their vote. But there are mounting concerns that the first election since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak will not provide the longed-for improvement in women's lives.
After repeated delays, Libya announced the lineup for a transitional government that will draft a constitution and prepare the country for elections.
Source: IRIN
AIDS activists have welcomed a pledge by US President Barack Obama to provide antiretroviral treatment to some six million people globally by 2013, an increase of two million on the previous target.
United in song and in views, participants of today’s Rural Women’s Forum gathered at the Occupy Land site just outside the Inkosi Luthuli International Convention Centre to raise their views.
An International expert on Women’s and Health Specialist has spoken out on the topic in the number of deaths occurring worldwide from maternal mortality. “It is a human rights violation because most countries in the world had signed to the United Nations declaration on the right to life,” says Ottowa, Canada based Dr. Andre Lalonde, former executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
Whose culture, and to what end? These questions cropped up again last week when Mandla Zwelivelile Mandela, an ANC MP better known as the grandson of Nelson, met with the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, the Rural Women's Movement and the Commission on Gender Equality to clarify his position on ukuthwala.
ARV treatment is a crucial health intervention and every effort must be made to increase coverage. However, other reproductive health services continue to be neglected, with dire consequences for women.
Source: Open Democracy
It is time that debates surrounding religion and migration in the UK move beyond the almost monolithic focus on Islam, recognising the multiple and fluid ways in which religion shapes, and is in turned shaped by, experiences of migration, says Chloé Lewis and an overall threat to ‘British identity’.
Source: The Independent
Their `century’ shouldn’t be perceived as the end of men. On Sept. 21 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became the first woman ever to give the opening speech at UN General Assembly session. She called this ‘the century of women’.
Source: allAfrica.com
When a baby is born, everyone is in awe of how cute, tiny and innocent the baby is. But what turns these little sweet angels into monsters who will beat their wives (or husbands) and children within an inch of their life? What are the influences that will eventually make a man feel no remorse as he plucks off patches of hair from his wife's head in anger or burn their little child out of spite?
Source: This Day Live
Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has instituted an annual scholarship of N250, 000 to support each beneficiary for the training of female engineers in any of the tertiary institutions in the country.
Source: The Citizen
As Tanzania joined the rest of the world to mark this year's World Aids Day on Thursday, some two million women across the country had every reason to celebrate the day.